flyed lice 1 of 2, post 1 of 2 today

FLYED LICE

post 1 of 2 today

I can’t fathom that it would be a secret to any of you that I hold the beliefs and practices of 99% of preppers and survivalists in very low regard.  I don’t know if I’d go as far as to label them the Idiot Brigade, rather more likely the Very Ill Educated.  The baseline in learning the “craft”-for lack of a better term-seems to be set at near forth grade level.  As soon as it was perceived that money could be made off of the Soviet threat of nuclear destruction, more than likely the same folks that sold used cars to Blacks from the ghetto started hawking fallout shelters.

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And it just went downhill from there.  Remember all those “fallout shelter foibles” from printed fiction and shows such as Twilight Zone ( why is it that some of the very best writers such as Serling and Rand were smoking chimney’s?  Does nicotine stimulate creativity that much?  I’ve been a very light smoker, so I couldn’t tell you )?  Even the original survivalist strategies were suspect.  Some of the first “experts” were probably just copying from old civil defense booklets ( “duck and cover!” ), and every hatched poor idea was copied after that and made worse in attempts as justifying the “expert” label. 

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Not all ideas were poor, of course.  Some folks were actually quite original and logical.  Unfortunately it seems that few champion the older good ideas ( Kurt Saxon, Passport To Survival ) and instead parrot the old bad ideas that are like cockroaches, impervious to destruction ( semi-automatics, freeze dried foods, bug-outs ).  One idea that I have no idea where it originated was the Rice And Beans frugal food stockpile.  I’ve heard almost everyone recommend that combination, and I’ve also heard a good majority of them make comments such as “no one wants to live off them, but it is better than starving”.

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Of course nobody wants to live off rice and beans after the apocalypse.  That crap is NASTY.  I’m talking “two weeks between showers prisoner ass right after he was pleasured the night before” nasty.  To recommend that anyone eat that slop is criminal.  Yet, everyone seems to think this should be the Go-To stockpile of poor folks, or even the filler needed to bulk up the insanely expensive freeze dried entrees.  Since they can’t afford anything else as they paid $15 a pound for hamburger.  Why?  If I had some idea as to the origins of this idea I might understand.  But I don’t.  This is a mystery wrapped in a riddle surrounded by dumbassness. 

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Now, we all understand the “grain and bean” requirement.  If you cannot afford dried milk to compliment whole wheat, you add a legume to your diet as the grain and bean each have separate parts of a complete protein.  It substitutes for lack of meat in your diet.  In theory, rice and beans do this.  I say “in theory”  because I don’t recall the conversation differentiating between whole grains and milled grains.  When you remove the hull, does that remove the amino acids?  I know the protein content is reduced to a mere 15% once the bran and germ is removed.  But as far as the amino acids I’m clueless.  Does nutrient-less starch from the kernel still contain those acids?

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Regardless, you cannot store whole grain rice as it quickly becomes unhealthily rancid from the hull oils.  You can only store white rice.  Which is just the starch.  Which is why vegetables figure predominantly in Asian cuisine.  They replace the vitamins and minerals that the rice hull had.  The white rich starch is just empty calories.  Not that there is anything wrong with empty calories, as long as you have something else to provide the nutrients it lacks.  So, even if you rely primarily on rice for your survival food, you still need to store some whole wheat berries ( kernels ) so as to sprout them for the vitamins and enzymes.

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Don’t underestimate those enzymes.  Fresh foods are not only critical for nutrition, you will crave them very shortly after beginning to eat your shelf stable foods.  If that sucker ain’t rotting, there are no enzymes.  You can even make a weak beer out of wheat sprouts, so there is that if nothing else.  It is perfectly fine to eat white rice.  Just have those sprouts.  Everyone focuses on spices and flavorings for their rice, but don’t forget the fresh sprouts ( they might not provide a huge amount of vitamins.  You might need to supplement with vitamin pills.  But they sure are needed as a fresh food ).

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But again, WHY?  Why do you believe it necessary to store beans and rice?  If you enjoy the taste of rice, that is all fine and dandy.  But, do you?  Or are you like me and would rather have little or nothing to do with rice?  I think it tastes like crap. Your mileage may vary.  But, are you storing rice because that is what everyone else was telling you was necessary for a storage food program?  If so, and if you don’t really care for the taste of rice, why aren’t you storing white flour instead?

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I understand a lot of folks don’t care to mill wheat berries to make their own whole wheat flour.  They don’t like the taste of whole wheat bread, they aren’t used to it and they have no desire to grind their own flour.  Okay, no big deal, just use the whole kernels for sprouts.  Store white flour.  It is no different than white rice.  They are both empty calories.  Flour is cheaper than rice.  Sometimes half the price, or pretty close.  And, kind of important here, you can make so much more with flour than you can with rice. 

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Flour is like Forrest Gumps recipes for shrimp.  Shrimp gumbo, fried shrimp, baked shrimp, boiled shrimp, shrimp Creole, shrimp cabob, Pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, etc.  You can make an insane number of dishes with flour.  What can you do with rice? Boil that lump of crap.  That is about it.  Continued tomorrow.

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